Corrections and clarifications

• An article about job prospects for graduates said the average starting salary was holding level at about £29,000. To clarify, this is the average reported specifically among companies in the survey whose findings our article was reporting – that is, big-name organisations described by the researchers as the UK's "hundred leading graduate employers" (Interns will secure one-third of graduate jobs, 18 January, page 13).

• A review of the CD Blue Songs by Hercules and Love Affair on Friday stated that the song It's Alright was a cover of the Pet Shop Boys song. In fact, that was itself a cover of the original, which was by Sterling Void (Hercules and Love Affair: Blue Songs - review, 28 January, page 18, Film & Music).

• A reader responds to an article, early editions only, on the decline in numbers of wild birds in the UK: "The bunnock has suffered a larger population decline than was realised and is now extinct. Not so its near orthographic neighbour the dunnock, which may not be too well, numbers-wise, but is still with us." And the bird pictured was not, as the caption would have it, a yellow wagtail, but a blue-headed wagtail. (Concern for 1 in 5 species as numbers of wild birds plunge, 21 January, page 11).